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Child Development Resources

How To Raise A Smart Baby

Higher Order & Creative Thinking Skills (3 - 7 Year Olds)

Nick Jr Boost - Online Educational Games for Kids

Click N Kids - Reading & Spelling for Young Children

Melissa & Doug Toys

Back to Basics Toys

Amber Alert - Child Tracking GPS

Instant Baby Sleep

Being A Happy Effective Parent (CD)

Offer Rewards and Get your Kids to Tidy Up

Raise your hand if you want to clean? No hands were raised. When you ask your kids they won’t raise their hands either. But, if you offer some type of reward in exchange for their services, you might get a few more takers.

Chores are a rite of passage. Kids learn how to clean and take [...]

Two and Three-Year-Old Children are Excellent Negotiators

Torgeir Alvestad, a researcher from the University of Gothenberg in Sweden, has written a fascinating thesis paper based on studying the play of two and three-year olds.   He finds that children this age are able to negotiate during play. In these negotiations they demonstrated invention, creativity, enthusiasm, industry, involvement, activity and problem-solving strategies.

The results show [...]

New Study Find Signs of Schizophrenia in Babies

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Columbia University have found that signs of schizophrenia can be detected in babies as young as a few weeks old. Their study is published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.

Schizophrenia is a mental illness that is found in 1% of all individuals in the world, [...]

Summer is the Season to Take Back Learning!

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Here’s a quiz for you: Did you spend at least seven of the last nine months complaining about the way your kids were educated at school?  Did you worry that your kids were spending too much time learning to fill in test bubbles correctly?  Were you ever forced to go to bed knowing you’d have [...]

ADHD and Pesticide Exposure

A recent study published in the June online edition of Pediatrics showed that children with higher levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in their urine were at higher risk of developing ADHD symptoms.  For every 10 fold increase in organophosphate pesticide metabolites in the urine there is a 55-72% increase in the odds of developing ADHD.  Organophosphate [...]